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A. F. FLOREY.

STOP ACTION FOR REED ORGANS. No. 423,750. Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

o Ill 4 1V/////////////1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALVIN F. FLOREY, OF VASHINGTON, NEIV JERSEY.

STOP-ACTION FOR REED-ORGANS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,750, dated March 18, 1890.

Application filed October 25, 1889- Serial No. 328,145. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ALVIN F. FLOREY, a citizen of the United States, residing in ashin gton, \Varren county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stop-Actions for Reed-Organs, of which the following is such a full, clear, concise, and exact description as will enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a mechanism for organs by means of which the stops can be regulated noiselessly and effectively, with levers so fulcrumed and pivoted as to move with the least possible friction, yet at the same time free from any tendency to impart a backward movement to the stoprods; and the invention consists in the devices and combinations of devices hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear view showing stop-rods and connect-ions embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line :r 00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2, but showing parts in different position.

Properly fitted in the frame A are the stoppulls B B with rods 1) 1), near the rear ends of which are pivoted the operatinglevers O 0. Upon the lower ends of the levers C O are the cushioned head-pieces (l d of ordinary form, from which lead the wires c 6, connectin g wit-h the mutes. (Not shown.) The levers C O are bent at an angle, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, and also provided with horizontal offsets or shoulders c c, resting in the slotted bearings in the upper ends of the fulcrums E E, which fulcrums are shown as pivoted at their lower ends by the rod 6' to the bracket F on the frame A. To the lower side of the bracket F may be hinged the grand-organ or rocking bar G, having at one end the arm or lever g, by means of which it can be tilted, throwing back all the head-pieces d d, the slotted bearings in the fulcrums E E permitting a free upper movement of the levers O C, and thus allowing all the mutes to be opened simultaneously and independently of the stop-pulls.

The exact form of the pivoted fulcrums E E and levers O C may be somewhat varied, provided that the pivoted fulcrums afford bearings to the bent levers which will allow them to be freely moved by the rocking bar G, as just stated. It is readily seen that wit-h operating-levers of the form and fulcrums as described there is no tendency to backward movement under strain upon the head-pieces d d, while with pivoted fulcrums undue friction is avoided, thus affording an action which is not only sure, but what is also of the greatest importance, smooth and noiseless.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an organ-action, the combination of levers, bent as described, connected at one end with the stop-pulls and having at their other ends connections with the mute-wires, and pivoted. fulcrums adapted to afford bearings andpermit the movements of said levers, substantially as set forth.

2. In an organaction, the combination of the stop-pulls B B, levers O O, pivoted fulcrums E E, and rocking bar G, arranged and operating substantially as set forth.

ALVIN F. FLOREY.

\Vitnesses:

LYNDoN CARHART, Louis D. FLOREY. 

